Norton Hodges
Zen and the Art of Tesco Shopping
Lines of trolleys, big, small, short, fat.
Lift Emma into the baby seat.
Bit of a struggle.
Security guard.
Lottery booth.
This week’s ‘Hello’.
Who’s bought all the strawberries?
Wanted them for Darren’s tea.
Mmm, fresh bread,
how come you can smell it
on the other side of the car park?
Onions,
1 tin toms,
1 tin soup,
1 tin baked beans.
Look, they’ve got that new Jerry Springer
video.
Cat food,
Fairy liquid,
loo rolls,
Bird’s Eye chargrilled chicken (on offer)
Teletubbies yogurt,
milk,
squash.
That’s the lot.
Coupons,
cards,
scrunch up list.Not many checkouts free.
Quick!
Stick it on the conveyor belt. Where’s the
'next customer' sign?
That guy’s got
ten six-packs.
Know what he’s doing this weekend.
Is that Gemma I used to know at school?
Loyalty card,
lick fingers, open more bags,
pack,
cheque card,
£18=33, not bad.
Wait.Don’t meet checkout girl’s eyes.
Sign.
Smile at her
when she gives you the receipt.
(Doesn’t look like a Gillian, does she?)
Get this lot to the car.
Emma's such a good girl, only asked for
a packet of Joosters.
Load boot.
Still raining.
Nice cup of Nescafé,
feet up,
the ‘Sun’.Daytime TV.
Aerobics tomorrow.
Bliss.
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magazine list
- Features
- zines
- 10th Muse
- 14
- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
- ARTEMISpoetry
- Atlas
- Blithe Spirit
- Borderlines
- Brando's hat
- Brittle Star
- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
- Equinox
- Erbacce
- Fabric
- Fire
- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
- Global Tapestry
- Grosseteste Review
- Homeless Diamonds
- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
- London Magazine, The
- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
- Oxford Poetry
- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
- Poetry Scotland
- Poetry Wales
- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The